Since everyone contributed to helping me me pick my bookshelves, I thought I'd do a little write up of building them.
Day 1:
I am fortunate to have the help of Gracie:
The two of us together dig deep...do our best work and the results:
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Okay...so maybe day 1 wasn't that impressive but it let me get familiar with the techniques. A couple of observations:
1.) SPLINTERS - The unfinished parts of the furniture is UN-FINISHED. You have to be careful.
2.) Watch the finish when putting stuff together - I had to take my extender apart and put it back together because I had unfinished stuff facing outward. Look at it from the front and make sure everything is finished before you put it together.
Day 2:
So again my results aren't too impressive, but we don't have the extenders for the full-size bits, so I just built the half-width part:
The full size shelves are actually mostly easier than the extenders, because they have all the same parts. I'm glad I did the extender first to perfect my technique.
Day 3:
Gracie has not been much help, so I have decided to enlist a new friend:
With the additional help I get all of the shelves up:
I have to lay them back down though because I don't have enough time to anchor them to the wall and I can envision crushed cats if I leave them up.
Day 4:
We go to Home Depot and get a Stud Finder (it worked on me!) and some hardware to fix the stuff to the walls. I also use an L bracket to fix the DVD tower to the side of one of the bookshelves. So now we're almost done!
Day 5:
The $#!% doors! So everything else was pretty easy, but these things were a little more difficult. You have to get them all to line up and they have a little play. Unlike everything else I had to tinker with them to get them to look right. Here are the results:
We opted to just put doors on the middle part for some visual interest. I'll put up some more pics once we fill them up this weekend!
